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Overview: The crime film is one of British cinema’s most important genres, with hundreds of films produced in the last few decades. British underworld films evoke a compelling atmosphere of tough machismo in seedy low-life locales. Even unpretentious B films contain implicit critiques of social conditions and the hard-boiled surfaces of thrillers like Hell is a City and They Made Me a Fugitive offer a welcome alternative to the cosiness of most British films of their era. Yet, while American noir and gangster pictures are revered as important cultural documents, their British cousins have been given scant consideration. Why has the history of the British crime film been relegated to an underworld below the critical gaze?
British Crime Cinema is the first substantial study of this neglected genre. Bringing together original work from some of the leading writers on British popular film, and including interviews with key directors Mike Hodges (Get Carter) and Donald Cammel (Performance), the book follows the progress of the crime film from its first flourishing during black market Britain of the 1940s, through to the resurgence of the gangster cult in the late sixties, and to more recent examples such as The Long Good Friday, Shallow Grave, and Face.
The contributors trace the influence of the Hollywood gangster picture on its British counterpart, and assess the crime film’s relationship to the British New Wave. They also explore how many underworld films questioned contemporary social attitudes, subverted feminine stereotypes, represented particular versions of masculinity, and provided an insight into the shifting gender relations of post-war Britain.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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